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Sue is a Canadian home economist (40 years) and consumer educator. She is full professor and interim doctoral program coordinator in the Faculty of Education, Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia Canada. Her work pushes the boundaries of consumer studies and of home economics philosophy and leadership from integral, transdisciplinary, transformative and moral imperatives.
In regards to integral and transdisciplinarity, she is the inaugural associate editor, Social Sciences, for the newly launched Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering and Science . She is a member of CIRET (International Center for Transdisciplinary Research) in France, and is working with Dr. Russ Volckmann (Editor) on a series about leadership and the trans- disciplinary university, for the Integral Leadership Review journal (2010). Her forthcoming book on Consumer Moral Leadership (Sense Publishers, 2010) contains ‘ first of’ chapters on integral consumption and transdisciplinary consumption. She published a paper on consumer scholarship and transdisciplinarity in the International Journal of Consumer Studies (2007). A half-hour video on transdisciplinarity, in layperson’s terms, is available at her website (McGregor Consulting Group). She recently published an article on ‘Integral Metatheory’ (2010) in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal (Sage). In 2007, she attended the Building the Scientific Mind gathering in Vancouver BC and participated for three days in the transdisciplinary strand facilitated by John vanBreda, South Africa.
Sue has delivered keynotes or talks about transdisciplinarity in Germany, Malta, Slovakia, Bermuda and United States. In 2009, she was awarded the TOPACE International Award for distinguished consumer scholarship and educator, at the Consumer Citizenship Network (CCN) conference in Berlin. This award recognized her scholarship about transdisciplinarity and consumer citizenship education.
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